Life in Slumburbia — Musings of a Middle-class Holdout

west Wheaton, Maryland...cracked duplexes...stained mattresses...kitten-sized rats...paved over front lawns...autos that double as mobile sheds...loud music you can feel before you hear...drunks pissing in your shrubbery...teenagers yelling obscenities at each other...children screeching like banshees...now where're my meds, dammit???

Thursday, May 7, 2009

The Slumburban Asphalt Jungle

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This Wednesday we were treated to a Washington Post article with a photo featuring a familiar sight from Connecticut Avenue Estates here in...
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Monday, April 6, 2009

What the brick--?!?

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In honor of “Script Frenzy,” I have written the following short dialogue, which takes place not far from lower slumburbia (southwest Wheato...
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Saturday, April 4, 2009

WASCally Wabbits, Cheap Chickens, and Bad Eggs...

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No, that’s not my version of early Easter tidings. Maybe this is, though: (apologies to neb & fury) WASC  ==  White Anglo-Saxon Capitali...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

If I were in a foamcore fantasy band...

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I just ran across this local blog, “Foam Core Fantasy .”  I discovered it because the author (who goes by Cyndy) sometimes comments on Sceni...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Pokin’ fun at the usurer suspects...

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Happy April Fool’s Day, folks. I hate practical jokes because I tend to suspend disbelief with alarming ease, particularly when I’m off my m...
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Foreclosure Fallout in the Mid-County

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A foreclosed home on the corner of Turkey Branch Pkwy & Independence St in lower Aspen Hill. This neighborhood is not included in the co...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Not so far from the madding crowd...

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“Never follow the crowd.” —Bernard Baruch  (1870 – 1965) American financier, speculator, & public figure ¢ $ ¢ $ ¢ Gratuitous embedded m...
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